Museums
Poland's main fire service museum, from a pump of 1717 to fire engines
Museums
a parish museum with masks, costumes and instruments from Africa, Oceania and South America
Museums
municipal museum with archaeology, history and the interiors of an Upper Silesian flat
Museums in Mysłowice include the Central Fire Service Museum, the City Museum on the same street and the Mission Museum in Brzęczkowice, good for a rainy day.
Two of the three institutions are neighbours on Stadionowa Street, and the third sits in the crypt of a church in Brzęczkowice. All three are quiet choices for a solo visit, whatever the weather.
The Central Fire Service Museum at Stadionowa 7A is the country's leading place to learn how firefighting developed, opened on 14 September 1975. More than 4,000 objects have been gathered, and the displays stretch over some 4,000 square metres. One highlight is a horse-drawn pump of 1717, the oldest of its kind in Poland. The institution is run by the National Headquarters of the State Fire Service.
On the same grounds works the Mysłowice City Museum, a municipal institution from 2006. Its permanent displays have three sections: archaeology, history and ethnography. The Mission Museum in Brzęczkowice feels quite different: it opened in 2004 in the Oratory of St Adalbert, in the church's lower level, and presents souvenirs from Africa, Oceania and South America. To read about the city's past near the old frontier, see the text on the Three Emperors' Corner. More of the city is in things to do in Mysłowice and monuments in Mysłowice, and museums from across the region in the category museums in Silesia.
The collection holds more than 4,000 items, and the exhibition exceeds 4,000 square metres.
In Mysłowice-Brzęczkowice, in the lower level of the church of the Our Lady of Sorrows parish, in the Oratory of St Adalbert.
